Learn English from English Newspapers

Today’s English
May 6th, 2017

If one wants to pick up standard English and enrich his vocabulary, one of the best ways is to “regularly” read English Newspapers.  I’m sure, you will jump out of your skin to know the total number of English Newspapers being published in india. It’s 19172. (As per the records with the Registrar of Newspapers for India). There are plenty of English newspaper apps and sites in addition to their own News channels. W3newspapers.com can be one's favorite site where anytime you can have access to any newspaper in any language in any part of the world (updated from hour to hour). Here are few samples from English Newspapers today:

1. In stead of saying, “get started”, you can say “get under way".

Dog show in Ooty gets under way.
(Taken from The Hindu, Coimbatore Edition)

2. What do you mean by “inebriated”?
It’s an adjective referring to the state of having drunk too much alcohol.

Hamsa, reportedly inebriated shot her hubby in Bangalore.
(From The Times of India)

3. Act as a deterrent = prevent others from doing wrongs

After the verdict on Delhi gang-rape case, the victim’s grandfather said that it will act as deterrent and women will feel more secure now.
(From the Hindustan Times)

4. Crackdown = severe action upon offenders;  abattoirs – slaughterhouses

A day after taking oath as UP CM, Adityanath ordered a crackdown on illegal abattoirs in the state.
(From the Indian Express)

5. Haircut, in finance and economics, means “a financial loss on an investment”

The Modi government has taken a big haircut by deciding to disinvest the three business hotels run by India Tourism Development Corporation(ITDC).
(From the Economic Times)

(Husband: I had a big haircut yesterday.

Wife: why don’t you take our kutties? They too need haircuts, don’t they?

Husband: ………..?!)